This is Bo Sanchez - known inspirational speaker, best-selling author, entrepreneur, get rich guru and I'm sure I can research a few more accolades for the guy. Today, Barbie and I went to listen to Bo's talk about getting rich - and as I suspected, it was a mixture of material and spiritual wealth.
I was, however, less impressed with him as a speaker - chalk it up to my Toastmasters background, my Accenture years or even my I/ACT history... but I found Bo underwhelming as a speaker. Make no mistake, his topic was educational for a lot of people - if they have not yet read Kiyosaki's ideas (I did). I was, of course, curious to hear what he had to say - and how he was going to say it... and even if it's just a Php500 fee, I felt a bit short changed. After all, I (technically) spent more than that with my time (approximately Php2,500 of my time for the morning - consultant, remember?).
This is not to say that Bo is a fake, or that I can definitely do what he does a whole lot better... after all, he is an expert in his field, and he's found a niche... something I have yet to do. But his technical aspects - educational as they were - were stretched to the limit (or is it because I've grown accustomed to Accenture's optimization ways, that I felt his presentation to be enormously stretched?) and his technique was a bit... automatic. I would even say that the Bo I saw was just going through the motions. I guess this is one reason why I did not bother getting a book and asking him to sign it. - nor did I bother to sign up for his succeeding seminar.
Thing is, I know I sometimes also just go through the motions - when I'm tired or simply uninspired to talk about something. Well, if anything, this reminds me of how I might look like to others. I could even cite reasons, but the bottom line is I too am guilty of not giving my all at times. This morning, therefore, was a reminder to me... of how I should be more inspired... and inspiring - specially if people will pay to listen to me... thanks for the timely lesson and reminder Bo, and here's to God's luck and guidance to us both.
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